User talk:Stillnotelf

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello Stillnotelf, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! , SqueakBox 03:04, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] HH Equation

Good call on the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation. I didn't even realize I had forked the article via misspelling. -SocratesJedi | Talk 20:13, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Euphemisms for sex acts

Hey just beacuse you don't find my list funny, doesn't mean its can't become a valuable reource that does not exist on the elesewere on this internet.66.65.54.222 04:39, 23 October 2005 (UTC)Josh

[edit] TfD

I had wondered where they'd gone, along with the actual text of my nomination, rather unhelpfully swallowed by the software. I think I managed to put them all back, but if I missed a couple, they may well be in the bit bucket already. Hurrah for bug-free software, eh? ;o) Chris talk back 03:31, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Hmm... The really odd thing is that all of my edits there were section edits, so in theory the rest of the page shouldn't even have been affected. In theory. Chris talk back 03:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Information wants to be free

My text copied from User talk:JShook

I noticed you used this phrase in your recent posting at Templates for Deletion on the Limited Use template - I can't offer any advice with copyright issues, but I would like to know if you happen to know the origin of that phrase, I've been trying to track down its source recently. Thanks, stillnotelf has a talk page 04:20, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas_pr.html suggests that Steward Brand coined this phrase (see start of section II.)
Here is a summary of someone else's research into the origin of this phrase: http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/IWtbF.html.
Google is your friend. JShook | Talk 13:41, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
I'd been looking for "information yearns to be free" and found hints that it might be attributable to John Markoff, but I couldn't find anything consistent enough to be confident. Thanks for your help, stillnotelf has a talk page 17:35, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sexiled

I added the tags to mirror the Sexile entry. I figured there's no point in trying to merge the two since they should be exiled to Wiktionary—they don't seem to be expandable with any more useful information. Cheers, BrainyBroad 03:04, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] thanks

hey, thanks. are you a student too?

[edit] Drug chart

Just curious, has this chart been yours from the beginning? -- stillnotelf has a talk page 04:38, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes. I came up with the original chart in April of 2003, and uploaded a copy last November (2004). (See Image:Drug_Chart_version_1.0.png). I posted an ascii version of the chart to the alt.drugs.psychedelics newsgroup for peer review of sorts ... ascii chart. As you can see, it hasn't changed all that much since then ;) --Thoric 05:15, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

I, stillnotelf, award a Graphic Designer's Barnstar to Thoric for his incredible work on the Psychoactive Drug Chart.

Wow! Thanks! :) My first award :) You're awesome! --Thoric 05:39, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] enzyme-stub

Don't sweat it, stub templates don't have to have icons. Frankly that inage is so cryptic, I wouldn't mind if it weren't there. I was just giving him a chance to defend the image, if he so chose. Caerwine Caerwhine 06:12, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Response

I just wanted to see what it did. Sorry for any inconvenience.209.122.217.195 16:23, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

(This is in reference to this edit, which the user immediately reverted.) -- stillnotelf has a talk page 16:30, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Public Ivies

The change you made to photographs does not appear to have improved things at all. Rkevins82 02:08, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

(my reply, on Rkevins82's talk page)

When I first looked at the page, all the section edit links were jumbled at the bottom, under the "see also" section. I thought it was a problem with the pictures, so I rearranged them, and the problem went away. My browser might have freaked out or something (Firefox)...either way, I'm not attached to the edit, revert it if you don't like it. As of right now, the edit section links appear in the right places to me, and they didn't before. -- stillnotelf has a talk page 02:57, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
I see on the Talk:Public Ivies page that you don't want the pictures there at all...I've also got no problem with deleting them wholesale if that's consensus :) -- stillnotelf has a talk page 03:00, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Ah, they loaded fine on the right side in Firefox for me. Rkevins82 03:00, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Well, there isn't consensus ot cut them. I thought since each of the colleges is linked to (and presumably has the images) they served no purpose. Rkevins82 03:02, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for for fixing the vandalism. This marks the first time an idiot decided to do that to me. Caerwine Caerwhine 23:42, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Malthusian Selection

This concept was published in the Australian Humanist magazine. Dacoutts.

This concept - and half-a-dozen others created by the user in a flurry of activity over the past 24 hours have all been published in an article by the wikipedia author. Google'ing the "Australian Humanist magazine" find nothing but passing references in other publications - no web site, no information as to the make up, philosophy, or editorial practices of the the magazine. It seem unlikely in the extreme that it is a peer-review journal. I think that - based on the evidence to date (and I'm open to hearing more, by all means) - this is original research, and self-promotion of the author's ideas. Beowulf314159 14:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
I thought the problem with differential replication was simply a lack of understanding of evolutionary theory, but put together with the rest of these articles and the stuff at this site and it looks like a bad case of the worst kind of OR kookery. Obvious deletion. Pete.Hurd 06:14, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Please respond

On the Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Redshift page. Thanks! --ScienceApologist 18:21, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Done. -- stillnotelf has a talk page 22:46, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Your requirement for stability being "wait 6 months" seems to be externalized criteria not based on the Featured Article Criteria. In particular, the question is has the article been subject to edit wars? I submit that it hasn't. (This may be a dispute more for Wikipedia:Featured Article Criteria). --ScienceApologist 16:24, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Virginia Governor's Schools

I don't have plans to create any of the other pages, but from my experience, they're much more likely to be written if a redlink is created. You could take all the redlinks out the template if you want, leaving the nonexistant articles as text, but I think this will serve better to get new articles faster. Note that I also created the main Governor's Schools (Virginia) article. Jkatzen 23:20, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vanuatu vs. Vanutu

Hello Stillnotelf!

Indeed Vanuatu is a real country, but the country listed in List of fictional countries was Vanutu, which is a fictional one. Also the geography differs in Crichton's book. It is probably better to leave the fictitious country in the list. If you agree please re-add the entry you have erased. Tavilis 19:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Looked like a typo to me, but I've fixed it per your request, thanks for the headsup. -- stillnotelf has a talk page 19:30, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Pirvates vs Ninjas

You raise a good point. I was being a bit hasty, perhaps! Thanks for catching my mistake. --AaronS 22:33, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

On the same note, thank you for helping to keep the article there and improving upon it! Tigeriz

[edit] Cheers dude... Venn are you going to help me ;-)

Seriously though, thanks :) --Dan|(talk) 20:07, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Thanks for participating in my RfA. It passed with a final tally of 98/13/10, just two short of making WP:100. If you need my help with anything, don't hesitate to ask.

Naconkantari e|t||c|m 23:06, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 40 hour famine

It is NOT a hunger strike! But anyway thanks for reminding me. (If you can please sponsor me:)) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Inkybutton (talk • contribs) 05:05, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PiKA

Thanks for being patient with me, I am new to this. I moved the page from wmpika.org to wikipedia. The platform provides a great way for users to grow the history records of this important organization. Its obviously still a work in progress as is everything on wikipedia. There hasn't been a lot of activity yet because I have not announced its existence yet to the thousands of interested alumni and members of the broader community.

I have been trying to figure out the specific reason this article should be disqualified from wikipedia by looking at the criteria. It seems to fit on the site pretty well as it is notable in that it was one of the first fraternities at the College that invented the Greek system.

It is also very similar to the following wikis that have not been nominated for deletion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_Chi_Alpha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_Alpha_Order http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_Alpha_Epsilon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Kappa_Alpha


The information is verifiable.

The article is not original research.

It is not a definition.

It is not trivia.

It is not a blog.

It is not a personal history, It is not a forum, a travel guide, a memorial, a news report, a directory or manual.

In many ways it is similar to histories of clubs on wikipedia that have been deemed to fall within the wikipedia guidelines:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hellfire_Club http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slimelight_Club http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_Club —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Djrobb (talk • contribs) 21:37, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

The problem is that it is a chapter of the fraternity, not the fraternity as a whole. PiKA as a national organization clearly deserves an article, but has the local chapter done anything historically meaningful enough to merit an individual article? Of the clubs you mention: the first is historically notable, the second is active in current events, the third is a location, and the latter is probably not notable, although does have some historical interest.
The article is essentially a personal history, just not a history of one person, if that makes any sense. Is this particular chapter any more notable than any other chapter of the fraternity? While the notability criterion is debateable (it's not technically official policy), there is still a problem with the fact that Wikipedia is not a web host: this is the sort of information much more appropriate to the site you moved it from than Wikipedia itself.
The main reason I have listed it for AFD is to see what other people think about the notability of the article. AFD is a debate towards consensus, not simply a vote and most certainly not a sure deletion; I've had my own articles nominated in the past. Other users will eventually weigh in on the notability of the article to establish a community consensus.
I'd also like you request that you please sign your posts on the talk page by typing four tildes: ~~~~. This puts your name and the time that you wrote the comment. -- stillnotelf has a talk page 21:57, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moving the PiKA discussion

I am trying to figure out the right place to have a discussion on the deletion of the PiKA page. We started talking in the talk section of my user name. Is the better place for this the talk section of the nominated page itself? If so, should we move what we have contributed so far? Djrobb 14:40, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

We should have it on the talk page for the article. I'll help you move stuff later. -- stillnotelf has a talk page 19:48, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SmackBot and Chemistry

Thanks I'm not sure how to do this but I'll think about it. Rich Farmbrough 23:37 24 March 2006 (UTC).
OK I've made a change, it its a little complicated by the fact that AWB does some of these off it's own bat, and some are done through regular expressions I specify. I'll just give it a test. Rich Farmbrough 23:42 24 March 2006 (UTC).
It seems to work, it should now be very limited in taking capitals into the [][]. Any other issues, please let me know. Rich Farmbrough 23:47 24 March 2006 (UTC).
Thnaks, nice to be appreciated! R.

[edit] My RfA

My RfA
Thank you for supporting/opposing/commenting on my request of adminship, sadly the result was 54/20/7 an thus only 73% support votes, resulting in that the nomination failed. As many of you commenting that I have to few main-space edits, I'll try to better my self on that part. If you have any ideas on what kind of articles I could edit, pleas send me a line. :) →AzaToth

09:45, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PiKA and webhosting

WP:NOT a webhost. Feel free to tell the guy to either use the content for encyclopedic purposes (or at least something related to Wikipedia or its community) or take it and form his own wiki. That'd probably be best in the long run, since if the fraternity chapter wants to encourage contributions from past and present members, their own wiki would be the way to go. You can nominate the page on WP:MFD if Djrobb isn't co-operative. Johnleemk | Talk 05:50, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Hi,

I really appreciate the kind compliment, which applies equally to your own page here. Your concern for "wiki-janitorial" edits is also highly admirable in my book. Taken together with your level-headed argumentation, I am very impressed, and look forward to supporting you in a bid for adminship soon. (Spend a week or two voting at AfD to get the extra project experience editors will want, and you're a shoo-in!) Best wishes, Xoloz 17:41, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Patrick Stewart

Not a problem, it was really my fault for making the first version so crappy. :) --Dante Alighieri | Talk 15:40, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] SERI microalgae culture collection

I'm a little concerned about the article SERI microalgae culture collection, it appears to just be a random list copied from a government report.

I'm not sure what you mean by random, the subject of the page is the Solar Energy Research Institute's microalgae culture collection, the list is of the microalgae species in that collection at the closing of the Aquatic Species Program.

Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information.

I don't know what you mean by indiscriminate either, a good encyclopedia should define, or further expand upon, anything that it references, if you have to go to outside sources to learn the meaning of a term, or subject metioned in an article, then your encyclopedia is lacking and incomplete.

As a copy of the report, it doesn't belong in Wikipedia.

It's not a copy of the report, as the report is over 300 pages, it is an excerpt from the report pertaining to the SERI microalgae culture collection.

The article still needs to be developed, but I think it has a good start.


Could you explain to me (here, my talk page, or the talk page of the article) why the article should stay? Otherwise I think it should be nominated for deletion. -- stillnotelf is invisible 04:22, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Daemion

[edit] Lol

Feel free to fix it, my userpage is open as long as its not vandalism :) -- Tawker 04:23, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] bling bling

I didn't make it up. Here is the source: [1] Vaoverland 02:36, 9 April 2006 (UTC)


I have no heartburn over that; I wondered when I added it. BTW, a sad day at W&M with the fatality. Mark in Historic Triangle of Virginia Vaoverland 02:59, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: PROD

You are absolutely right; what I did was out-of-process. I did it in the spirit of WP:IAR, because I think that almost no-one who creates an article is going to willingly watch it be deleted; as such, I think the policy should be changed to say that you can un-PROD any article except one you have just created. I mentioned it at the policy's talk page, was told that my view did not have wide support, and as such I have stopped doing it. Hope that clears it up, and thanks for correcting my errors! Batmanand | Talk 10:22, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Incidently, I did list it for deletion. Batmanand | Talk 16:22, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Whoops

Careful with that popups tool. You restored some vandalism with it. Just a note; happy editing! --Mr. Billion 04:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed it after the reversion had gone through - I forgot that you can't use popups (properly) from the contribs page, only from the watchlist or recent changes pages, it works differently for whatever reason. The anon had already fixed my botch fix by the time the history had reloaded for me to check it. Thanks for warning me, though, -- stillnotelf is invisible 04:48, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Offer

I'll give you a dollar if you make a Pastafarian userbox I can put on my userpage -Vedek Wren

I put a link to the pre-existing ones your talk page. No charge. -- stillnotelf is invisible 03:25, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A question

Thanks for your welcome.

Do you pay people to edit Wikopedia/Wikiquote from home? I rather enjoy it, have become a bit addicted to editing, and wouldn't be averse to spending forty or fifty hours a week doing it. The thing is, I have to eat and pay the bills too.

I'm not working at the moment so would be free to work on this, if some sort of funding is available. I thought I would ask. I can type very fast.

If funding isn't available directly, do you back people up to obtain grants from funding bodies (e.g. the UK National Lottery?) The Advocate 23:12, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

(replied a while back -- stillnotelf is invisible )

[edit] Thank you and question

To stillnotelf,

Thank you for your welcome note. It will be much appreciated! The picture tutorial will especially come in useful.

I love Wikipedia; it is the best encyclopaedia I have ever encountered, interactive or book-based. Therefore I will out effort into contributing as much as possible.

One of my aims is to add a picture to every article that does not have one.

However, I have a question: Must we have permission to place a picture in an article if the picture is taken from a website?

Thank you again,

Crazy Eddy 23:01, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

(Replied on his talk page -- stillnotelf is invisible 23:13, 22 April 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Hi.

I've created the page for Tiers as you asked at a subpage of your userpage. (I was the closing admin, and the result of the debate was delete.) SushiGeek 08:16, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I blanked a talk page you moved

Howdy; I came across Talk:Rahul where this move of yours was the last diff. I've assumed that this was an automated revert and that you don't want this content kept; please revert if I'm mistaken. Cheers, Colonel Tom 12:27, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

It wasn't automatic, per se, but I could care less about the content - the talk page just sort of tagged along when I was repairing pagemove vandalism to the article page. Thanks for cleaning it, -- stillnotelf is invisible 14:24, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] (Moved from main user page, Re: capitalization)

I care! Why do we have to have a capital letter for the title of an article? This is correct grammar, admittedly, but there are many exceptions. For example, I was annoyed when I came across the "iPod" article and saw that it had to be titled "Ipod". What is stopping those lower-case-first-letter titles? The Wikigods turn Wikidemons sometimes. Crazy Eddy 08:04, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

You'd have to ask at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) to be sure, but I'd guess the wiki-syntax has to do with removing case specificity. If lowercase article titles were allowed, people would try to make separate articles on "Fork" and "fork". Even worse, links to fork in the middle of a sentence would go to one article, links where Fork was the first word in the sentence would go to the other article. It'd make a mess. Right now the software automatically redirects lowercase first letters to uppercase for all articles. Does that help? -- stillnotelf is invisible 14:31, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Um...yes, it does, but that's still annoying. Maybe lowercase capitals should be made available for only certain articles - the articles that really need them. There must be some way to do that. Crazy Eddy 15:53, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Celer Mortis

Stillnot elf I am appalled that you would vote for the deletion of a well made article such as Celer Mortis that included a backstory, information, character traits, etc, and not delete an article such as Pun-Pun. Pun-Pun is not only absurd but provides no information about anything except the lengths people take to ruin D&D. I play D&D, and Celer Mortis was more of an improvement to the game than Pun-Pun will ever be. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.82.176.29 (talk • contribs) 01:32, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

This occured months ago, why bring this up now? -- stillnotelf is invisible 04:31, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Drug chart evolution

Greetings :) I've been doing some more work on the psychoactive drug chart, and would like to get your feedback. I currently have a rough draft of the changes on this page: new drug chart. Please let me know what you think. Thanks :) --Thoric 21:06, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Yup, it looks like you've put EVEN MORE work into it...the new one is somewhat better.' Comments I would make on the chart itself:

1. The spacings on Sympathomimetic Amines and Psychomotor Stimulants off just the tiniest bit; they break their defined shapes.
2. Methadone? Should it be shoehorned in?
3. Promoting Antipsychotics to full circlehood was a good choice!
4. If cannabis is separate from THC, should tobacco be included as a companion to nicotine? (There's other stuff like Harmala alkaloids)
5. You might want to make the background outside the circles transparent so it doesn't have a white box around it.
6. Something seems odd with the Antipsychotic coloring..the same pink is used both in this "this part only" of the diagram, and the middle section. The center should be white, and the cannabis/THC section should get a different color...?
1 - Things are still being roughed in :)
2 - for sure... just keep forgetting ;)
3 - awesome :)
4 - where do you suggest harmala might best go?
5 - I'll try playing with that... just don't want jaged edges
6 - the middle pink should be more pale I imagine (white + pink = lighter pink) will fix that.

Meta-commentary:

1. Why not move it to User:Thoric/newchart instead of where it is...?
Could do ;)


I'll take another look at it later. I'm only making image commentary, I trust you to know the drug details better than I do. Keep up the incredible work! -- stillnotelf is invisible 00:35, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks for the feedback :) --Thoric 01:56, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] edits to Abigail and...

no, not actually, the source was a bulletin brough to my attention on a blogging website, I attempted to verify this through a Google search and found several pages that mentioned it, so I posted it on Wikipedia; knowingp that if it was false it would be edited out. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alegoo92 (talk • contribs) 00:03, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Care to link me to the blog? -- stillnotelf is invisible 01:08, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes, you can find it [here] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alegoo92 (talk • contribs) 02:19, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Template:Lowercase-user

I replied at Template talk:Lowercase-user. After thinking about it for a bit, I found a compromise that should work in both situations. If you have a comment, please reply at Template talk:Lowercase-user. --Interiot 02:29, 16 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] You weren't online

But i figured you'd get a kick out of this:

In June 2004, 25 Russian soldiers earned Honorable Mention Darwin Awards after becoming ill from thallium exposure when they found a can of mysterious white powder in a rubbish dump on their base at Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East. Oblivious to the danger of misusing an unidentified white powder from a military dump site, the conscripts added it to tobacco, and used it as a substitute for talcum powder on their feet. Vedek Wren 17:47, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

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